Life interrupted : : trafficking into forced labor in the United States / / Denise Brennan.

Having spent nearly a decade following the lives of formerly trafficked men and women, Denise Brennan recounts in close detail their flight from their abusers and their courageous efforts to rebuild their lives. At once scholarly and accessible, her book links these firsthand accounts to global econ...

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Place / Publishing House:Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 289 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Starting over
  • Part I: The assault on workers
  • Dangerous labor : migrant workers and sex workers
  • Chains of fear : the subjectivity of coercion
  • Part II: Life after forced labor
  • Imagining the possible : creating home
  • Living the possible : settling into home
  • Laboring after forced labor
  • Closing comments
  • Appendix: Ideas and resources for action.